Skin microbiome ichthyosis. Skin and stool microbiome in patients with ichthyosis

The ichthyoses form a large, clinically and etiologically heterogeneous group of mendelian disorders of cornification (MEDOC) and typically involve all or most of the integument. The pathognomonic clinical manifestations of ichthyoses are skin dryness and generalized scaling. Here, 41 patients were enrolled and skin swabs (left/right forearm and abdomen) were taken.